Great Ambient Music (one)
Some music stays with you forever.
Evening Star is a work of aching beauty at times. Using their own techniques of recording, Robert Fripp and Brian Eno, cooled the tone after ‘No Pussyfooting’ which was an altogether spikier affair. This time they embraced the fullness of ambience and allowed the music to guide itself with cynicism kept at bay enabling pastoral, very English pieces to emerge.
Using Frippertronics, (an early form of looping using a looping length of recording tape on which the sound decayed over repeated playing enabling an ever evolving soundscape) along with Eno’s synthesisers, the backgrounds were created with solos played by eno on ‘Wind on Wind’ and Fripp on ‘Evening Star’ for example.
I recently came across this absolute gem of small group of classical musicians performing the title track using Cellos to replicate the lead parts and although the film is poor quality, the sound is good and it’s just gorgeous – link